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From: fleep@reed.UUCP (Philip Ljubicich)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: How secure is 'crypt'?
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 17:57:49 EDT
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In article <287@sdcc12.UUCP> wa371@sdcc12.UUCP (wa371) writes:
>Can anyone tell me how secure 'crypt' is on a UNIX system?
>Lets assume that the password is secure and not obvious.
>Thanks,
>Bernd R.
>
>Bernd 'bear-nd'            *** hooray for USENET ***
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Although I can't answer the main question, I can give you something
to look out for.  I was cleaning up my files one day while my friend 
was encrypting some files.  I did a 'w' command to find out why the 
load average was so high, and low and behold I see my friend has done
the command 'crypt franklin < diary > temp'.  It is possible for someone
to pickup your password by accident, or intentionally, if they are
monitoring the processes running while you are encrypting.

I realize that this isn't what was requested, but I thought it might be
useful.

Good luck,
fleep
(Philip Ljubicich)